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The process of actually copying the data is pretty simple. This seemed to produce no ill effects and compiled. Although a net search suggested that perhaps I ought to look into DesignerVerbs, I opted instead to manually add the 15 or so lines of code to the “Windows Code Designer Generated Code” region. While the VS.NET IDE allowed me to view a designer for the component, and add a ContextMenu to it from the Toolbox, VS.NET produced a NullReferenceException as soon as I clicked the “Edit Menu” hyperlink. The first challenge I encountered was in designing the component’s ContextMenu. Drag the DataGridCopyHelper to the form's designer and set its Grid property to the DataGrid you want to use it for in the DataGridCopyHelper's properties window. To add copy functionality to a Windows Form containing a DataGrid, simply add the DataGridCopyHelper to the Components pane of the VS.NET Toolbox.
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As I will discuss further, this little feature proved to be the most challenging aspect for me, and I still haven’t figured out how to do it in all cases. I also thought it would be very nice if I could get the text of the column headers whenever possible and copy those with whatever data was listed below them. I found a very nice article by Palomraz that was very helpful in understanding some of the finer points of components and how they are created and disposed by Windows Forms. While inheriting from a standard DataGrid might have provided access to some protected members that might be helpful, I wanted to see if I could do it without resorting to this approach – which might also be a benefit if someone wanted to add this functionality to a derived DataGrid previously written for another reason. In designing this component, I wanted to avoid having to derive a custom DataGrid for the specific purpose of copying data. So in terms of flexibility, I wanted something that would work with virtually anything bound to the grid. Most of my grids are bound to custom collections of objects and make use of a DataGridTableStyle with its MappingName property set to the type name of the custom collection and specific DataGridColumnStyle objects to display the properties I want to show. It’s been quite a while, so the details aren’t so fresh in my memory anymore and unfortunately this type of approach won’t work for me. One common approach I’ve seen requires the use of a DataTable as the grid’s DataSource, and does some sort of magic with the CurrencyManager and/or DataViewManager to iterate through each bound row and query the value of each bound column.
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Any other modern application seems to be able to let you copy data you see in grids and paste it elsewhere, and it’s gotten embarrassing having to explain to my users that my application can’t do that. It grew out of my frustration about all the work I find myself doing in order to show users data in a grid, and even let them edit it, but still have to turn around and write them a report so that they could print it (other than via a screen shot), and/or use the data elsewhere (such as in a spreadsheet). This article describes a component I created to add copy functionality to a Windows Forms DataGrid.
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